Billy Parish is uniting disparate student groups on campuses across the U.S. and Canada into a single, coordinated effort to drive a youth-led environmental movement. Through the Energy Action Coalition (EAC), students and youth leverage their collective power to engage people of all ages in practical, effective solutions to achieve “climate neutrality.” In the process, the coalition will transform young people into the next generation of leaders – in the private, public and citizen sectors.  This student movement replaces the “gloom and doom” message of environmentalists with a hopeful, solutions-oriented and achievable agenda.  Billy recognized that colleges have a special role to play in the environmental movement: they are centers of innovation, training the next generation, and they are also economic drivers and major employers in their communities.  EAC members launched The Campus Climate Challenge to work first on changing the institutions where they have the most influence. Through the Campaign so far 540 schools have become engaged, 1.7 million students have been reached, and 285 college presidents have committed to becoming climate neutral.